2181. Current status of Shepard
The home star of Unknown Regions of the Galaxy, Crakull planet, and Korlok.
After more than three months, Shepard must admit that no matter how many places she has been to, Crakull planet will be the most special one among them.
In the cities of this planet, there are giants walking everywhere who are two to three meters tall, some even reaching four meters. And these giants, without exception, all have hideous faces, and all the terrifying shapes that can be imagined are vividly reflected in these giants.
Sharp barbs are already a basic operation, tentacles full of suction cups, a mouth full of fangs, vesicles flowing with pus, densely packed sharp teeth... Even the best horror painter cannot imagine such a wide variety of types.
In such an environment, if you are a person with a slightly lower psychological endurance, you may have a psychological breakdown within a few days.
However, fortunately, Shepard, Huang Yehao, and this team of Ashley Williams and others are all elites among the elites, so naturally they cannot waver in such an illusion. These scary giants are actually all illusions.
Yes, this is the home planet of Korlok, and Korlok is a race that is good at making Force Illusion.
Their bodies are very tiny, just a slug that is no more than 30 centimeters long and has more than a dozen slender limbs. Making Force Illusion is their means of self-protection.
Of course, for Korlok, this is not just self-protection. Using Force Illusion to deceive and blackmail is their main purpose.
Because of this ability, Korlok is born to live in concealment and deception. In such an environment, every Korlok has evil thoughts and lies. Such a society has actually become a deformed and distorted society.
Korlok has a very long lifespan, at least tens of thousands of years. But with such a lifespan and such abilities, Korlok has never become a powerful civilization. The main reason is that this social relationship has almost no basis of trust.
The current political power of Korlok is a Elder Council, which is used to mediate disputes and conflicts that arise. In each city, there will also be branch mediation courts to handle some relatively minor matters.
Apart from this, Korlok has no more administrative agencies. There are only some industry associations or interest groups, and these groups are also full of cheating and intrigue.
Under such circumstances, the entire Korlok civilization can maintain the status quo and gather a certain amount of strength to carry out some large-scale projects, which is already the limit. Is civilization going to develop? That's impossible.
And when Shepard came to Crakull planet, the civil war on this planet had still not stopped.
Because Korlok civilization cannot resist the erosion of God of Decay mon Gal-mongolian Gal, it can only raise a large number of combat creatures Lugubra that look like enlarged leeches. Lugubra can swallow Mongolian Gal-Mongolian Gal without being infected, and it is precisely because of this that Korlok is able to defend its own planet.
It's just that Gal-Gal doesn't matter, it completely surrounds Crakull planet. Within hundreds of light-years around, all habitable planets were swallowed up by Mongolian Gal-Mongolian Gal, and Korlok simply could not escape from this huge cage.
Under such circumstances, unless Korlok abandons his home planet, there is only a little hope for the entire escape and relocation. But this is also unlikely. Because the social form of Korlok makes it impossible for them to have the industrial system to build a spaceship that can accommodate the entire civilization, and they also have no materials to support such an ultra-long-distance voyage.
And what's even worse is that in order to resist the erosion of Mongolian Gal-Mongolian Gal, Korlok raised a large number of Lugubra, and later commissioned Kaminoans to help them improve the genes of Lugubra, making this combat creature more powerful.
But the more powerful combat power also makes Lugubra's appetite grow bigger and bigger.
In the end, the entire Crakull planet supplies were unable to sustain such a large number of Lugubra. So under the extreme shortage of supplies, the civil war finally broke out.
This civil war lasted for decades. Korlok split into more than a dozen factions and fought against each other, causing heavy casualties. In the end, more than a dozen factions merged with each other, and only the two largest factions were left, still existing and continuing to fight.
However, the battles between Korlok are all controlled by Lugubra. They will not set foot on the battlefield themselves, so their civil war is more than fierce but not cruel enough.
This is the situation Shepard faced when he arrived, and this is why all the Korlok he saw created extremely ferocious and terrifying illusions for himself. Because in such a war, they will not trust anyone at all and can only protect themselves through such illusions.
Shepard also feels a very headache, because currently, Korlok is the race that knows the most about Mongolian Gal-Mongolian Gal, and they also have ancient artifacts that may be able to fight against them - Mind-harp (content in chapters 2051~2054).
But under such circumstances, it is impossible for Korlok to play any role in the action against Mongolian Gal-Mongolian Gal. And the fighting continues to this day, and you don't even know how many people on both sides of the war are secretly controlled by Meng Gal-Meng Gal.
Shepard can only wander around, dealing with the last two major factions. The names of these two factions are very convoluted when pronounced in the standard language of the galaxy, so Shepard used simple logos to call them - Pistol Faction, Elder Faction. Pistol Faction is because their flag is a pistol-like weapon, and Elder Faction is because this is the faction that Elder Council belongs to.
And Mind-harp is controlled by Elder Faction.
In this process, Shepard also used her good social coordination skills to run between the two major factions, first of all, she wanted to achieve a truce between the two major factions.
To this end, she led her team to conduct several deterrent operations on the battlefield. Including kidnapping Commander, misleading the army, stealing combat plans, blocking logistics supplies, etc.
I have to say that their combat capabilities are really strong. Korlok, who only knows how to fight with the combat creature Lugubra, is a few levels higher. Normandy shuttles around like Ghost, and there is no way to resist it.
As a result, under such a turbulent move, the war between the two warring parties finally became unbearable and they were forced to reach a ceasefire.